books.google.com - From the highest hill above the town of Ripley, Ohio, you can see five bends in the Ohio River. You can see the hills of northern Kentucky and the rooftops of Ripley's riverfront houses. And you can see what the abolitionist John Rankin saw from his house at the top of that hill, where for nearly forty...http://books.google.com/books/about/Beyond_the_River.html?id=djp9Q7l-1-sC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBeyond the River